Author: Clifford Kinvig
Publisher: Brassey's Incorporated
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Examines the purposes, planning, and construction of the River Kwai railway in the jungles of Burma and Thailand and discusses its strategic importance to the Japanese
Author: Clifford Kinvig
Publisher: Brassey's Incorporated
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Examines the purposes, planning, and construction of the River Kwai railway in the jungles of Burma and Thailand and discusses its strategic importance to the Japanese
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Author: Reg Twigg
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241965101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive. After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.
Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309516
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Author: Peter J. Green
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ISBN: 9781367662476
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Languages : en
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The remaining section of the Burma Railway in Thailand runs from Nong Pladuk Junction, near Ban Pong, to Nam Tok. We take a journey in pictures along the railway line from Thonburi Station in Bangkok to Nam Tok. We look at the trains along the route, as well as its operation and lineside features. This is the Burma Railway as it is now, seen in photographs taken over a six year period to 2013.
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Hilary Custance Green
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147387002X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the Burma Railway have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not to be horrified and moved by their stoic courage in the face of inhuman brutality, appalling hardship and ever-present death.While Barry Custance Baker was enduring his 1000 days of captivity, his young wife Phyllis was attempting to correspond with him and the families of Barrys unit. Fortunately these moving letters have been preserved and appear, edited by their daughter Hilary, in this book along with Barrys graphic memoir written after the War. Surviving the Death Railways combination of first-hand account, correspondence and comment provide a unique insight into the long nightmare experienced by those in the Far East and at home. The result is a powerful and inspiring account of one of the most shameful chapters in the history of mankind which makes for compelling reading.
Author: Peter Davies
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780939620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey understood from the very beginning that the only real issue was how to ensure that as many of his men as possible should survive their captivity. Many thousands who knew how Toosey stood up to their oppressors at great personal risk were incensed by Alec Guinness's brilliant portrayal of 'Colonel Nicholson' in the film version of Boulle's book. This book provides an accurate historical account of the terrible events during which more than 16,000 PoWs died while building the Thai-Burma railway, of which "the bridge" formed an essential part. A memorial to Toosey, this book is also a definitive history of the building of the railway in the context of the Far Eastern theatre of World War II. First published in 1991, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415309561
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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